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Naomi Kritzer’s short fiction

Hey! I have a SHORT STORY COLLECTION called Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories that is now available from Fairwood Press! You can also buy it from Amazon or Barnes & Noble. If you’d like a signed copy, my two local SF/F bookstores, Uncle Hugo’s and Dreamhaven, can set you up! This collection includes most of my short fiction published 2011-2015, minus the Seastead stories because they link together into a novel (and my agent is trying to sell that) and including a few older stories plus two stories that have not been previously published.

The list of my short stories with links to the online ones is below. (Including the fiction too recent to have been included in my collection.)

Brother Mac, You Are Healed!
I’ll pay you a hundred bucks if you can raise this computer from the dead.

St. Ailbe’s Hall
There was a Siberian husky in the last pew of the church, holding a hymnal and singing. Published in 2004 in Strange Horizons in two parts: available here and here.Gift of the Winter King
The Winter King came to bring order.

Magefire
The first thing I noticed about Mira was the candle she was holding.

Masks
On Mascherata, I could be who I was, without fear.

Kin
Mages don’t have babies; you’re a mage. You’ll get used to the idea.

The Price
I am a murderer, but I don’t remember who I murdered, or why.

In the Witch’s Garden
There are no other Gerdas here. We don’t need numbers.

Darknight
Don’t scream; if you do, they’ll all scream.

The Manual
Jesus: A dynamic speaker, someone who might have been to Franklin Covey training.

Kitchen Magic, With Recipes
Light candles, call the quarters, and preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

I found your website because I was looking for political information. Your posts were way more helpful than MPR! And then I got to this page and was reminded that you wrote Cat Pictures Please. That story was hilarious! Now I’m going to have to read all your stories (after I finish my thesis. Must finish thesis.)